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Deprecated RSpec syntax

Reports use of syntax deprecated in RSpec 4.

Examples of deprecated syntax:

  • Globally exposed DSL (describe and other example group/shared context calls at the top level without the RSpec. qualifier)

  • Block arguments passed to include_examples and include_context

  • should instead of expect

  • it_should_behave_like instead of it_behaves_like

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

RSpecDeprecatedSyntax
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Inspection ID: RSpecDeprecatedSyntax

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection RSpecDeprecatedSyntax

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

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Qodana for Ruby 2026.2, RubyMine 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026
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